Given name

Pradyumna

Pradyumna is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Pradyumna comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit प्रद्युम्न.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2007. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Pradyumna through the years

Babies since 1880
39
39 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
2009
7 babies
2025
6
#11,666 for boys
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
012342025Highest share 20093.5
Pradyumna in U.S. Social Security birth records, 2007–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,666 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2009. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 204 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Pradyumna’s family of names

In English usage, Pradyumna has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form प्रद्युम्न.

Walk Pradyumna’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

Hover or tab through the constellation to see how each name is related. Bigger dots are names more people in the U.S. share.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Pradyumna

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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